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An inadequate poemA poem falls short; I'd like, instead / to draw a single line from me to you / and watch it curl into a word

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This morning while you braved the weather,I lie in bed, a lazy girl / dreamy smiled and and sleepy eyed, / your latest sonnet on my pillow –

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RevivalNext time I wake from sleep / for keeps – from deepest, darkest / slumber – I may come back a little

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CrushIf an easy rain / would make the rocks slippery, / he would hold my hand.

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Your poems love my poemsI pretend that your poems and / my poems go / slumming in disguise;

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HousekeepingWhen you are over me, / I'll pluck my poems from your hair / and shake them from your sheets;

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CherriesFresh cherries, just washed— / beads of ruby strewn across / white bowl's shiny gloss—

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Night is a river.We drift along through moss and moon, / the currents swift from love's typhoons, / skim fingertips through stirred up sins;

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BonfireThis is how we love: / First with fire, then without. / Who was tending the embers?

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HomesickThis is a lonely poem, / a half an hour before dawn poem, / a poem like an empty kitchen –

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